Giant interactive star chart
Monica Roesner has shared this great interactive installation from B Reel, called "Star Canvas" This video share how a relatively idea and bit of technology evolves from simple exploration of interacting with a computer without using your hands to "paper, rocks, scissors," then to a fantastic interactive geodesic installation where you can create your own constellations and interact with the ones already there.
25 ideas shaping the future of design
Paul Diamond sent along this article from Fast Co. Design that asked 5 design studios (Ammunition, Herman Miller, Code and Theory ...) to share their thought on the future of design. Which ideas resonate with you? Did they miss something?
Would you eat something from a 3D printer?
Speaking of predictions, I'm not so sure that I will go for this, but the folks at Frog Design think you "will be more likely to eat something that has been 3D printed than buy something that has been 3D printed." A bold statement. 2015 is being touted as "the year you'll eat your firs 3D printed dessert." Check out their other bold predictions here.
Branding each of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes
Larry's inspiration reminded me of another ambitious site from a few years ago. Branding 10000 Lakes is an inspiring site by one designer, Nicole Meyer. Designing one lake logo a day, she figured it will only take her about 27 years to complete the project. She made it 377 days. I am still impressed. Talk about keeping your design chops up.
State plates.
Design and travel makes my heart sing, so you can imagine how happy I was when Larry Fulcher shared the State Plates Project tumblr site with me. Jonathan Lawrence asked different designers from all over the country re-designed state license plates. Drew Roper designed this for Missouri, and I wish it was on my car. Love how he took into account the mandatory stickers as well.
Motion design inspirations
Rachel Haas found this Turkish designer raised in Sweden, Toros Kose, whose motion graphic and experimental design has allowed him to freelance the globe.
LEGO augmented reality
Larry Fulcher wishes he was 10 again. (OK, I wish I was 10 again, too.) The London studio, Gravity created a project called Lego X. It converts Lego bricks with some hardware that allows a computer to track their position as you build. And you can export the 3D file is you wish. OK, sign me up.
Mmmmm ... infographic sketchbooks
Steven Heller and Rick Landers recently published the book Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, which shares the behind-the-design-scenes look at the process of designing infographics. 50 designers, 50 processes. Read more about the book here.
Great design movies
This was my list to-be-watched (or re-watched) during "recovery time" (I still haven't seen them all, yet.) Yes, I know you have so much free time on your hands right now ... but here are some art & design movies that will hopefully keep you inspired as you push to finals. What would you add to the list?
design master series:
- Design is One: Leila & Massimo Vignelli (ps, I have the Graphic Design Standards book in my office if you want to see it.)
- Eames: Architect and the Painter
- The Visual Language of Herbert Matter
- The Gary Hustwit design trilogy: (the book just came out about all three movies
- Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
- Why Man Creates (Saul Bass 1970s)
- The Artist Series by Hillman Curtis (short films with top artists, design firms and designers ... Paula Scher, David Carson, Malcolm Gladwell, Stefan Sagmeister, James Vitore, Pentagram, Maclom Gladwell & more)
art & design & printing & other cool stuff
- Sign Painters (hand lettering)
- Just Like Being There (gig posters)
- Indie Game (game design)
- Art & Copy (advertising)
- Typeface
- Linotype: the Film
- Design & Thinking
- Everything Must Change — Piet Zwart (Dutch interior and industrial designer)
- Between the Folds (origami)
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (artist activism)
- Beautiful Losers (skateboard & street art)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
- Bomb It (graffiti)
- Style Wars (hip hop documentary)
- Logorama
- Bauhaus: the Face of the 20th Century
- PressPausePlay (digital revolution unleashes creativity)
- Drew: the Man Behind the Poster (illustration)
- The Universe of Keith Haring
- Beauty is Embarrassing (Wayne White)
- Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (performance art)
- Bomb It (graffii)
- The Cool School (art scene of the 1940s)
- American Look (1958 documentary)
- A Model for Matisse (friendship between the artist and a nun)
- Bill Cunningham New York (fashion and street photography)
- Gucci: The Director
- The September Issue (Vogue)
other movies:
- Metropolis (1927 futuristic classic)
- Dreams, Akira Kurosawa
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (quest for perfection)
- Herb & Dorothy (a postal clerk and librarian build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history)
- Life in a Day (humanity documented)
- A Scanner Darkly (rotoscope. every minute took 350 hours)
- Finding Vivian Maier (life work of street photographer/nanny)
- Marwencol (Mark Hogencamp)
- In the Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger)
- Basquiat
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